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Thursday, May 26, 2016

It was a fairly anticlimactic final night of the 2015-16 season, with most of the biggest Wednesday shows already done for the season. The lighter competition was good news for Law and Order: SVU (1.5), which won the night with a surge to its best ratingin a couple months. It was surrounded by Heartbeat (0.7) and Chicago PD (1.4), which were both steady.

Fox will have to wait a little while longer for a non-fractional summer series result, as Wayward Pines returned for season two with a 0.9 rating, still pretty passable by Fox standards. This was just a tenth behind last year's series premiere, but season one had notable post-premiere growth that may be tough for this run to match. Its lead-in was Rosewood (0.8), which took a huge dip to a new low with no Empire lead-out.

ABC ended the four-year run of Nashville with just a 0.9, up just a tenth from recent results. It actually had a fairly normal-sized lead-in as the network aired movie Finding Nemo (1.1/1.4), in preparation for the sequel Finding Dory's upcoming release.

CBS' final edition of primetime The Price is Right (1.2) ticked up, but two more original hours of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (1.0/1.0) hit new lows once again.

The CW seemed to benefit a bit from the lightened competition as Arrow (0.8) and Supernatural (0.8) both had season finale rises.

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

Movie: Finding Nemo

1.3

38%

+30%

-27%

-17%

1.50

Nashville

0.9

27%

+12%

+0.1

-0.2

+12%

-10%

1.12

+0.25

ABC:

-20%

-16%

The Price Is Right Primetime Special

1.2

23%

+9%

+0.1

-43%

-48%

1.49

+0.15

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

1.0

22%

-9%

-0.1

+0.1

-52%

-57%

1.07

-0.09

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

1.0

24%

0%

0.0

-0.2

-33%

-44%

1.20

+0.13

CBS:

-44%

-50%

Heartbeat

0.7

21%

0%

0.0

0%

-36%

1.03

+0.09

Law and Order: SVU

1.6

28%

+23%

+0.3

0.0

+14%

+23%

+14%

1.76

+0.23

Chicago PD

1.4

26%

0%

0.0

+0.3

0%

0%

0%

1.46

+0.07

NBC:

+9%

-5%

Rosewood

0.8

29%

-43%

-0.6

-43%

-33%

1.13

-0.48

Wayward Pines

0.9

37%

-10%

-78%

-25%

1.11

Fox:

-69%

-29%

Arrow

0.8

46%

+14%

+0.1

+14%

+167%

0.92

+0.14

Supernatural

0.7

48%

+17%

+0.1

+0.1

0%

+17%

0%

0.69

+0.06

CW:

+15%

+50%

All:

-36%

-22%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.